Metahuman College-Issue one: College bound [IC]

[Calinon]

"Be silent!" Black Star scolds the boy. "And still, unless you wish to fall," she adds warningly, though she has no interest in dropping him. Flying upwards, she'll find a nice, high, abandoned rooftop and set him down, keeping him bound.

"You have much to answer for. Your actions have cost at least one good man his life. Where is the amulet?" she demands of him.

 

[Rybaer]

Watching Cloud watches the bird for a moment with interest. Spirit, perhaps?

She decides to continue on in search of the school. Should the bird react as if it sees her - or if it's capable of following her incredible speed - Cloud will slow down at attempt to hail the bird in a very polite manner.

 

[Nuke261]

Jonn Birkey (Rumble)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2003

Rumble grimaced slightly at the size of the hole in the floor and the clear path it took through all the previous floors. Oooo, that's gonna make someone mad.

With the mass of earth in front of him, Rumble directed it at the Gauntlet outside of the room, floating at the door. His thought were clear that he was directing the earth to encase the gauntlet. With any luck this would contain it and stop it's progress.

"Tank! Can you grab the one that got into the room? Knock it down or hold it or something?"

 

[Dark Nemesis]

-James Dunbar
New York, New York
August 2, 2003

The kick strikes the guard squarely in the forehead. Without a word, he falls to the floor, unmoving.

The other guard watches as her partner is knocked out with a single kick, before once again speaking into her radio. “We’ve got another assailant at the HR entrance! Steve’s down!” She did not move from her position in front of the door, and raised her free hand in a defensive gesture. She then spoke to James. “There’re cops right outside this door. You’re not going anywhere.”



-Jon Birkey
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2003

“I’m on it,” Tank replied. Stalking up to the door, he placed his hands in the hole that the gauntlet had made. He pulled, the muscles in his arms straining. Rumble could see the metal of the door bowing outward with a groan. “Gotta get in there first…. Damn, what’s this door made of?”

As Tank worked on creating an opening, the gauntlet moved toward the hole that the other one had created. However, its movement was impeded when it became encased in layer upon layer of rock and earth.



-Marcus Stevens
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2003

“Scriosa dia!” Shannon said out loud. Though the language is unfamiliar to Proton, it is clear that she had said something unrepeatable. She grabbed the gauntlet out of midair, and set it on the table. She flipped a switch that Proton had not noticed before, and the gauntlet seemed to open up, revealing a colorful array of wires and circuitry. “hopefully the sensors were not damaged,” she muttered.

Behind him, Proton heard Tank talking loudly, followed shortly by the sound of groaning metal.



-Mai Hoshiko
Aug. 2, 2003
Tokyo, Japan

At Black Star’s warning, the boy becomes as still as death. He stares up at her with wide, terror-filled eyes as she set him down. He is silent for a long moment, until he figures out that, even though she had told him to be silent, she expected an answer. “A-amulet? What amulet?”



-Watching Cloud Rice
Madison, Wisconsin
Aug. 3, 2003

Indeed, the bird seem to match Cloud’s speed, flying overhead with slow, almost lazy flapping of the wings. When she slows down, the bird will move ahead, and then circle back, bringing it lower toward the earth. At last, she could see that the bird was a great raven.

 

[Synchronicity]

James Dunbar, HP 4/5

-James Dunbar
New York, New York
August 2, 2003

The kick strikes the guard squarely in the forehead. Without a word, he falls to the floor, unmoving.

The other guard watches as her partner is knocked out with a single kick, before once again speaking into her radio. “We’ve got another assailant at the HR entrance! Steve’s down!” She did not move from her position in front of the door, and raised her free hand in a defensive gesture. She then spoke to James. “There’re cops right outside this door. You’re not going anywhere.”

James glares at the woman, the rage freely evident again. Angrily, he smashes his fist into the wall as he did upstairs, not caring how much damage he does to it. "Why is it you people keep standing in my way?! My sister has been kidnapped and I *will* find those responsible. If you continue to obstruct me then I will deal with you as I will deal with them. Now move aside, or you will be moved."

As he speaks, James moves towards the woman, stopping directly in front of her. "This is your only chance. Let me past so that I can deal with the armed individual and find my sister. I don't want to hurt you, but I will not let you stand in my way. I have to find her!" James's voice cracks slightly on the last words, and for a moment the fear driving the anger is visible. However, he regains control quickly, and says nothing about his lapse. 'Damn damn damn damn damn! Why do I have to deal with these idiots?! Amelia could be in danger even now, or worse, being moved somewhere else! I have to get to her!'

 

[Calinon]

Unsure of whether or not the boy is speaking the truth or it is just a ruse to be released, Black Star is left with little choice.

"You wore an amulet, and demonstrated many metahuman abilities. While it was on you held many people hostage, badly injured several and killed a police officer before I could stop you," she says flatly. "Since you cannot tell me what happened to the amulet you wore, we will return to the subway station this all started at so the police can deal with you. You have much to answer for," she says with little remorse, the death of the officer still fresh in her mind.

Quickly, she again weaves an ensnaring net to carry the boy, lifting off the ground and pulling him into the air with some effort. "Remain still. The flight will not take long."

 

[Rybaer]

Watching Cloud slows to allow the raven to approach within a reasonable distance. Definitely a spirit if it can travel so fast...and see my invisible form.

"Hail great Raven," she calls out in the telepathic manner of Dreamwalkers. "I am Watching Cloud Rice of the Pe'kiki'kune tribe of Menominee."


(ooc - When Cloud is in Astral form, she generally stays invisible. When visible, or to those who can see spirits, she typically wears traditional Menominee attire. In her case, breeches and vest of soft doeskin bleached almost white. A stylized blue hawk of beads is tooled into it.)

 

[Keia]

Marcus Stevens (Proton) HPs: 5/5, Unhurt

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2003

“Scriosa dia!” Shannon said out loud. “hopefully the sensors were not damaged,” she muttered.

"What?!?" Marcus exclaimed. Watching Shannon expertly snag the glove out of the air and begin manipulating it, he though that maybe these things weren't dangerous.

Yelling through the hole, Marcus called out, "Hold up guys - I think the gauntlets aren't the problem. At least it seems that way to Ms. Steele in here."

 

[Nuke261]

Jonn Birkey (Rumble)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2003

"Yes!" Rumble let out as quietly as possible. He didn't want to seem to much of a 'new guy.'
Then he heard Proton yell out that gloves were not the problem.

"Well, we have the other one under control." He looked over at Tank with a big smile on his face.

If the gloves aren't the problem, I wonder what is? "Wait a minute! Did you say Ms. Steele! I thought she left?"

 

[Dark Nemesis]

-James Dunbar
New York, New York
August 2, 2003

James has no trouble putting his fist through the wall, while uttering his tirade. However, it did not seem to have the same effect as before. The guard’s eyes narrowed and she pressed her lips together, not backing down.

“Where’d you come up with that story? You probably just want to join your partner outside.” Once James is close enough, she throws a punch. She manages to hit him squarely in the jaw, and probably would have seriously hurt a person without super powers. On James, however, it barely leaves a mark.



-Mai Hoshiko
Aug. 2, 2003
Tokyo, Japan

“I could not have done those things. I do not remember doing those things,” the boy said in reply. He seemed surprised that Black Star would think that he had done the things she had described, and he spoke with a fierceness of a person who was sure that he was telling the truth. “I do not have super powers.”



-Watching Cloud Rice
Madison, Wisconsin
Aug. 3, 2003

As Cloud watches, the raven descends, before landing upon the ground with a flap of its wings. This close, Cloud becomes even more certain that she is speaking to a spirit, if only because of its size. Its feathered head was a foot above hers, and it appeared to have a fifteen-foot wingspan.

For a long moment, it regards her, tilting its head to one side, then other. When it spoke, its voice echoed within her head, an elderly male voice. “You are but a child. An outsider, yet you call yourself Menominee. What business do you have here, girl?”



Marcus Stevens & Jonn Birkey
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2003

As Proton watched, Shannon tinkered with the gauntlet, poking at it with a small screwdriver that had previously been tucked behind her ear. At last, she sighed in relief. “It appears the only damage was to the exterior armor. Now, have you seen the other one?”

Then, she heard Jonn’s words, and her eyes narrowed slightly behind her glasses. “That is highly unlikely, as I have been in this lab for the past-“ she paused and checked her watch, “Twenty two minutes and thirty seconds.”

“Man, this chick is uptight,” Tank muttered, releasing his grip on the door.

Suddenly, Jonn became aware of a loud crackling sound from further down the hall, where he had seen the movement before. He turned in time to see a ball of energy fly toward him and strike him squarely in the chest. It felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him.

“I guess you’re supposed to be the heroes, huh? You’re just a bunch of kids!” The apparent source of the energy blast was an armored individual. He was roughly six feet tall, wearing a crimson helmet that obscured all but his mouth and jaw. The rest of his body was covered in armor of the same color, with some red and yellow lights that flashed intermittently on his wrists, and waist.

(OOC: Jonn is at a –1 to his damage saves, and is stunned for one round)